The grass moth genus Crocidophora

Crocidophora

Crocidophora is a genus of moth of the Crambidae family.-Species:*Crocidophora amoenalis Snellen, 1890*Crocidophora bicoloralis Swinhoe, 1906*Crocidophora caffralis Hampson, 1910*Crocidophora carapina Strand, 1918...

has been mis-spelled Crocidosema.

Crocidosema is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of tortrix moths (family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Tortricidae) belonging to the tribe

Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 Eucosmini

Eucosmini

The Eucosmini are a tribe of tortrix moths.-Genera:The Eucosmini are a tribe of tortrix moths.-Genera:The Eucosmini are a tribe of tortrix...

 of subfamily Olethreutinae

Olethreutinae

Olethreutinae is a subfamily of moth in the family Tortricidae.-Genera incertae sedis:This tortricine genus has not been assigned to a tribe yet:...

. They are found mostly in the Southern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...

, being especially common in the Neotropics. But some occur elsewhere, such as on the Hawaiian Islands

Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll...

.Baixeras et al. (2010ab)
At least some of them can be recognized by their wing veins. In the hindwings, vein 3 and 4 originate from a common stalk, and are approached by the fifth vein at its end. In the forewings, veins 4-6 converge at the termen.

These moths are mostly small and inconspicuous. But C. plebejana

Crocidosema plebejana

Crocidosema plebejana is a tortrix moth , belonging to tribe Eucosmini of subfamily Olethreutinae. It is found today all over the subtropical and tropical regions of the world and even occurs on many oceanic islands – in Polynesia and on Saint Helena for example –, but has probably...

is an occasional pest of cotton

Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....

 (and some other mostly malvaceous

Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

 plants) and has become widely distributed by trade in agricultural produce, while the Lantana Flower-cluster Moth (C. lantana) is employed in Lantana

Lantana

Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region. The genus includes both...

biocontrol

BioControl

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 and has been deliberately introduced to some locations.

Species

As of 2010, the 28 described species

Species

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of Crocidosema are:Baixeras et al. (2010b)